APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CARE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 855 



Canada, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, John Clark, of the citj'^ of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, ship-builder, do solemnly declare : 



1. That in the years 1891 and 1892 1 built the sealing-schooner 

 "Enterprise," G9 tons, registered at the port of Victoria afoiesaid, 



2. That the cost of the "Enterprise," when completed and ready for 

 her sealing outfit, was 9,500 dollars, or over. I also built in the same 

 years the sealing- schooner "Victoria," for 9,000 dollars. The "Enter- 

 prise" is larger and in every way a better built and stronger vessel, 

 and worth more than tlie difference in cost between her and the "Vic- 

 toria." The " Enterprise" is copper-fastened, coppered, and in every 

 respect a first-class vessel for the purpose she was intended. Her 

 market value at Victoria is not less than 10,000 dollars. An ordinary 

 sealing schooner, uncoppered, can be built at Victoria for from 100 to 

 120 dollars i)er ton carpenters' measurement, and when copper-fastened 

 and coppered, and built generally of better material and workmanshij), 

 at from 125 to 150 dollars per ton, same measurement, exclusive in 



both cases of rigging and sails. 

 224 And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing 



the same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act respecting Extra- 

 judicial Oaths." 



(Signed) John Clark. 



Subscribed and declared by the said John Clark before me, a N^otary 

 Public commissioned, and residing and practising at the city of Victoria, 

 in the Province of British Columbia, this 23rd day of December, A. d. 

 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) Arthur L. Bel ye a, 



A N'otary Puhlic in and for the Province of British Columbia. 



Canada, Province of British Columbia, City of Victoria. 



I, Victor Jacobson, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of British 

 Columbia, master mariner and ship-owner, do solemnly declare: 



1. That I am the owner of the schooner "Minnie," 49 tons, registered 

 at the port of Victoria aforesaid. I had the hull of the "Minnie" built 

 by contract for 3,000 dollars. I si)arred, rigged, and furnished the 

 vessel myself, and when comi)leted she had cost me a little over 6,000 

 dollars. This was in 1888 and 1889. I fitted and equipped the "Min- 

 nie" for sealing in 1889, at an additional cost of about 4,500 dollars. 



2. That neither the "Minnie" nor the "Mary Ellen," both owned by 

 me, have ever been in any other trade except sealing, nor do I know 

 of any other sealing-schooner that has been. If the sealing trade were 

 to collapse the Victoria fleet would be worth little or nothing. There 

 is nothing on the Pacific coast such a class of vessels can do except 

 sealing. 



And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the 

 same to be true, and by virtue of "The Act resi)ecting Extra- Judicial 

 Oaths." 



(Signed) Victor Jacobson. 



Subscribed and declared by the said Victor Jacobson before me, a 

 Notary Public duly commissioned, and residing and practising at the 

 city of Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, this 23rd day of 

 December, A. d. 1892. 



[SEAL.] (Signed) A. L. Belyea, Notary Public. 



